In Texas a non-compete agreement has to be reasonable in time and scope and ancillary to an otherwise enforceable agreement. The latter is difficult to decipher but basically there must be an agreement where the non-compete enforcer has agreed […]
Employers should be asking potential employees and even independent contractors whether they previously signed a non-compete/non-solicit agreement. Of […]
Last night I was at dinner with some friends and the subject came up of the enforceability of non-competes in Texas. The first statement/question I always here is that they are not enforceable. I’m not sure where that “common knowledge” comes […]
Happy holidays to you and your family. No legal analysis this week but here is a link to a non-compete/non-solicit case involving Adobe.
A few weeks ago we analyzed the enforceability of a college football coach’s non-compete agreement. The example we cited was Texas assistant Will Muschamp. Make that former assistant Will Muschamp. Muschamp left Texas over the weekend to take the […]
Illinois lawyer Kenneth Vanko provides the most comprehensive analysis of U.S. non-compete cases that I’ve seen in the legal blog world. His latest case analysis addresses a non-compete in the context of the sale of a veterinary practice. In Texas, […]
Imagine a scenario where Company A hires Company B’s former employee. A few months go by and Company A receives a demand letter from Company B informing it that: (1) the former employee has a 2 year non-compete with […]
Almost two years ago we profiled the lawsuit between IBM and Apple over IBM’s former employee Mark Papermaster. The two giants reached a compromise over Papermaster’s non-compete agreement and he continued work for Apple on its Iphone. Turns out […]
Non-compete agreements run the gamut of industries. Here we’ve discussed non-compete agreements involving pet care providers and rocket pack producers. In many cases, it would seem that business owners just include them to dissuade an employee from leaving with […]
College football is big money. Not surprisingly, football programs that pay millions of dollars to their coaches would like to keep them from moving to other schools. For instance, Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino has a contract that prevents him from […]
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